The sorcerer of Pyongyang
Theroux, Marcel, 1968-2023
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Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind in a hotel room by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a threat to the political cult that surrounds him. Over time, the game leads Jun-su on a spellbinding and unexpected journey through the hidden layers of his country, towards precocious success, glory, love, betrayal, prison, a spell at the pinnacle of the North Korean elite and an extraordinary kind of redemption.
Main title:
The sorcerer of Pyongyang / Marcel Theroux.
Author:
Theroux, Marcel, 1968-, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2023.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2022.
ISBN:
9781472156976 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
2378413
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